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Morphogenesis on trial
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Mathematical Phyllotaxis
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I need a hero, apparently
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Prepare Problems for the Brain to Solve: What did Beatrice Worsley want?
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Must have been alluring
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Alan Turing's bathtub
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Morphotexts
Morphotexts
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Oxford Road Show
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Sometimes it is the People Paid to Imagine Stuff
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Filming Dr Who in Manchester Town Hall
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Skewed research
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If I walked that Way I'd get arrested: the birth of the Alan Turing Way
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Turing, FC Williams, Tom Kilburn, Blackett, Max Newman
The Tale of Two Plaques
Turing, FC Williams, Tom Kilburn, Blackett, Max Newman
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Turing, FC Williams, Tom Kilburn, Blackett, Max Newman
Friends of Dorothy
Friends of Dorothy

Alan Turing on the £50 note.

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Radio Hale

BBC Radio Manchester started in Hale, almost.

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Turing, FC Williams, Max Newman, Michael Polanyi, Geoffrey Jefferson, JZ Young, James Yule Bogue, Warren McCulloch
Manchester minds and MIT ones
Turing, FC Williams, Max Newman, Michael Polanyi, Geoffrey Jefferson, JZ Young, James Yule Bogue, Warren McCulloch
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Turing, FC Williams, Max Newman, Michael Polanyi, Geoffrey Jefferson, JZ Young, James Yule Bogue, Warren McCulloch
Kathleen Lonsdale's inanimate computer
JD Bernal, Kathleen Lonsdale
Kathleen Lonsdale's inanimate computer
JD Bernal, Kathleen Lonsdale
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JD Bernal, Kathleen Lonsdale
Festival of Deansgate
Manchester, Festival of Britain
Festival of Deansgate
Manchester, Festival of Britain
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Manchester, Festival of Britain
Jots and tittles
Turing, Tom Kilburn, Mark 1, Molly Harrower, Warren McCulloch
Jots and tittles
Turing, Tom Kilburn, Mark 1, Molly Harrower, Warren McCulloch

An early memory of the first memory.

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Turing, Altrincham
Alan Turing's Altrincham
Turing, Altrincham

Local history for local people.

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Turing, Altrincham
Manchester Bees, Spiders, and Ants.
Turing, Tom Kilburn, Mark 1, Manchester
Manchester Bees, Spiders, and Ants.
Turing, Tom Kilburn, Mark 1, Manchester

Tom Kilburn built the Manchester computer. Why didn’t Alan Turing get on with him?

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Turing, Tom Kilburn, Mark 1, Manchester
Milk bars
Manchester, Turing, Burgess
Milk bars
Manchester, Turing, Burgess

Banana splits and pathetic fallacies

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Manchester, Turing, Burgess
Bert Hardy's Manchester
Manchester
Bert Hardy's Manchester
Manchester
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Manchester
Textile Recorder Review
Manchester
Textile Recorder Review
Manchester

More perverse Manchester pleasures.

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Manchester
Tram Fall
Manchester, Trams, Railways
Tram Fall
Manchester, Trams, Railways

Abandoned trams and bitcoin railways.

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Manchester, Trams, Railways
Annan, see.
Turing, Cambridge
Annan, see.
Turing, Cambridge

On the men who started the witchhunt, and the homophobia still present in Cambridge.

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Turing, Cambridge
Breaking A Wren Upon A Wheel
Bletchley, Max Newman, Joan Clarke
Breaking A Wren Upon A Wheel
Bletchley, Max Newman, Joan Clarke

A Bletchley Park secret: they wasted their women.

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Bletchley, Max Newman, Joan Clarke
Never Stand Under An Atomic Scientist (Barbenheimer Remix)
Oppenheimer, Blackett, Cambridge
Never Stand Under An Atomic Scientist (Barbenheimer Remix)
Oppenheimer, Blackett, Cambridge

They might drop a suitcase on your head. If they’re J Robert Oppenheimer.

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Oppenheimer, Blackett, Cambridge
Me and my saint's spoons
Turing, Cambridge
Me and my saint's spoons
Turing, Cambridge

A mini-meditation on the attraction — and grotesquery — of Turing artefacts.

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Turing, Cambridge